Northern Power Station

The Northern Power Station is located in Port Augusta, South Australia. The power station is operated by Flinders Power, a subsidiary of Alinta Energy. It uses brown coal, was commissioned in 1985 and generates 540 megawatts. The sole supply of coal for the power station is supplied from the Leigh Creek mine.

The sole supply of coal for the Playford Power Station is from the Leigh Creek mine, 280 km to the north.

Alinta Energy, which bought the power station in 2006, describes it as being an "baseload" supplier to the power grid.

Greenhouse gas emissions
Carbon Monitoring for Action estimates this power station emits 3.622 million tonnes of greenhouse gases each year as a result of burning coal.

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